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TIL Elvis Presley's manager made money by selling "I Hate Elvis" badges to those who were not purchasing Elvis merchandise.

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j6G5E TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.
jNYJj TIL that Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, a Canadian Colonel and diplomat, signed on behalf of Canada on the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. However, Cosgrave signed the document in the wrong place (on the line for France) forcing all subsequent signatories to sign in the wrong place as well.
gDOW TIL Robert Lincoln, Abe Lincoln’s son, was in line at an elevated station platform. The train mistakenly moved causing him to fall through an opening, but he was pulled up just in time to be saved. The hero was Edwin Booth, brother of the man who went on to assassinate Abe Lincoln 1-2 years later.
wokBJ TIL about 'Times Square', a sound art installation in Times Square hidden below an unassuming grate. Created by composer Max Neuhaus in 1977, the piece is purposefully unmarked and requires visitors to tune into a single resonating sound in the middle of one of the loudest places in America.
neg5b TIL The guitar in Lil Nas X Old Town road was sampled from Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails ended up winning a country music award because of this.